J. Irwin Miller Quotes
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
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You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
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Money cannot buy happiness.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
